O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One sunny day, I’ll sit in the shade and enjoy myself.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“One sunny moment, moving inexorably toward sepia.”
Source: Muse
“One sure path to failure is the readiness to blame everyone else for your misfortune.”
“One sure way I can avoid facing myself is by refusing to look into the face of God.”
Source: Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
“One sure way to increase a businesses profits is to implement a process improvement program. When a business audits it's internal processes and extracts waste from those processes, the result is inevitably more time or money being leftover.”
“One sure way to kill a dream, is to suffocate it with worry.”
“One sure way we can determine whether we are on the strait and narrow path is that we will possess the Spirit of the Lord in our lives. Having the Holy Ghost brings forth certain fruits. . . . The most important thing in our lives is the Spirit. I have always felt that. We must remain open and sensitive to the promptings of the Holy Ghost in all aspects of our lives.”
“One surefire way of getting results the results we need and want is to start taking the advice we so readily give to others.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“One surefire way of getting the results we need and want is to start taking the advice we so readily give to others.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“One surefire way to fail to overcome an objection is to dismiss it out of hand.”
“One surprise is how deeply the food system is implicated in climate change. I don't think that has really been on people's radar until very recently. 25 to 33 percent of climate change gases can be traced to the food system. I was also surprised that those diseases that we take for granted as what will kill us - heart disease, cancer, diabetes - were virtually unknown 150 years ago, before we began eating this way.”
“One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.”
“One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.”
“One survival technique is to get small. When resources are thin and you must stay where you are, as you must as a child, it helps to stay invisible.”
Source: Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir
“One suspects that the haste with which some performers and some writers brush aside the traditional-jazz renaissance reflects their understanding of the devastating effect that an insistence on the traditional values would have upon the world of modern jazz to which they belong”
Source: Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now
“One swallow alone does not make a summer.”
“One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.”
Source: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
“One swallow maketh not summer.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“One swallow never makes a summer.”
“One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.”
Source: Rameau's Nephew / D'Alembert's Dream
“One sweet world Around this star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming And here we will rest in peace”
“One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.”
Source: Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love
“One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home ... With this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.”
“One symbol of lack of democracy is to have cars parked on the sidewalk.”
“One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.”
“One take, so you better be ready and you better be good. One take and that was it. It was something that was spontaneous. Both Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason was like that as well.”
“One takes great pleasure in seeing children acquire skills one does not have, seeing them become, thankfully, different from oneself.”
Source: An Italian Education
“One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.”
“One talks much more about the evil than about the good. That is a paradox. We should only talk about the good to lighten up our existence. Chase anxiousness/fear away for a moment before it sneaks back in again to our life.”
“One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional, the arts gravitate toward contrariness. Literature is dialogue: responsiveness. Literature might be described as the history of human responsiveness to what is alive and what is moribund as cultures evolve and interact with one another.”
Source: Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung
“One Taste is not some experience you bring about through effort; rather, it is the actual condition of all experience before you do anything to it. This uncontrived state is prior to effort, prior to grasping, prior to avoiding. It is the real world before you do anything to it, including the effort to "see it nondually".”
Source: A Brief History of Everything
“One taste of her and I'd be addicted. And I couldn't afford that no matter how tempting a sin she might have been.”
Source: The Awakening as Told by the Boys
“One taste wouldn't hurt anything.
"You're not Little Red anymore," Drake said, his voice scratchy and deep, sounding strange to his own ears. "I'll only eat you if you ask me to.”
Source: Seattle Wolf Pack Box Set
“One teacher recently retired with a half-million dollars after 30 years of working hard, caring, dedicating herself and totally immensing herself in the problems of the students. That gave her $50. The rest of the money came from the death of a rich uncle.”
“One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up in the library, where there happened to be a black and white photography exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg's photographs of the streets of New York. The subject of his photos were exactly what I was painting about.”
“One teaches out of love: it's an impertinence, an imposition, in the end it's terrifying.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“One team takes their shirts off, the other leaves them on," said Paulie. "I vote Rosa is on the shirts-off team."
"In your dreams," she said.
His gaze gave her the once-over. "You guessed it."
"Go shampoo your brain, Paulie”
Source: Summer by the Sea
“One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.”
“One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.”
Source: Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod
“One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.”
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“One tendency that I became aware of was the way the Christian community at large seemed to misuse testimonies. I encountered many Christians, often family members of gay loved ones, who heard one individual's story and projected that experience on all gay people in general and on their loved ones in particular.”
Source: Generous Spaciousness: Responding to Gay Christians in the Church
“One tends to accept most things my father says. It is not a matter of His word being law, although it unquestionably is. It is more the case that His word is truth. You come to see that, of course, what He has said must be the case. And if it is not, by some standard of measurement, the truth, then you can be sure that steps will be taken to ensure that it becomes true. In such a manner does my father organize the world to His desires.”
Source: Jaghatai Khan: Warhawk of Chogoris
“One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.”
“One tends to look at life a whole lot differently when one realises they may lose it soon.
-Emit Eht”
Source: Emit Eht
“One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.”
“one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.”
Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir
“One tends to write beyond what's needed”
Source: Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991